BWSC Reg Reform Blog Administration

There was a Waste Site Cleanup Advisory Committee meeting on Thursday, June 27th from 9:30 am to noon at MassDEP’s Boston Office, One Winter Street, 2nd floor conference rooms A & B.

The first part of the meeting provided general program updates.

We then held a discussion on the public comment received on the Active Pathway Elimination Measure proposal (the proposed changes that provide for a Permanent Solution with Conditions where a sub-slab depressurization system is operated as to prevent vapor intrusion impacts to a building as part of a permanent solution). This portion of the meeting was intended to assist MassDEP in developing the final amendments for this closure option through more focused discussion of the different procedural and technical requirements proposed in the public hearing draft.

Please consider providing comments on this Blog to facilitate a wide-ranging & open discussion during this process.

Hope to see you Thursday! – Liz Callahan (Elizabeth.J.Callahan@state.ma.us)

MassDEP is rewriting portions of the Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP) with the goal of providing clearer rules for owners, operators, LSPs and other interested parties dealing with sites where volatilization of contaminants under or near a building has caused the intrusion of vapor-phase contaminants into a building’s indoor air or could result in vapor intrusion as the result of future development.

What has been your experience with completing an IRA? What are the circumstances in which it is not clear when an IRA Completion Statement can be filed?

Source Elimination/Control

How should we define “source elimination/control” to ensure that people are appropriately addressing the source and have a clear standard to meet? The current requirement is that a “source [of OHM] . . . which is resulting or is likely to result in an increase in concentrations . . . is eliminated or controlled.” 310 CMR 40.1003(5).

What options should MassDEP consider for creating a measurable standard for whether source has been controlled?

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